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They were purely personal. [11]

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This resemblance to words may be purely accidental, of course, and may have no purpose or meaning; but even in that case it is still extraordinary, and is a thing which no other bear can do. [5]
There is no woman but thinks that her husband, the green-grocer, could write poetry if he had given his mind to it, or else she thinks small beer of poetry in comparison with an occupation or accomplishment purely vegetable. [4]
Among the commanders who hold these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called "Abolitionism," or with "Republican Party politics," but who hold them purely as military opinions. [7]
The object with which the brain-tapper puts his questions may be a purely benevolent and entirely disinterested one. [6]
In your own, which is so purely white, you can never, till the day of doom, understand what I am. [10]
To this John was sometimes prefixed, as betokening from the purely animal point of view a certain resemblance to the imputed grimness and earnestness of the great reformer. [4]
After all, it was rather absurd to propose making a purely personal question the pivot on which his relations with 'Every Other Week' turned. [8]
Since the evidence was purely circumstantial, there must be no flaw in its cable of assumption, it must be logically inviolate within itself. [11]
Not that he was deficient in intellect, but, to her thought, his was a purely objective mind; or was it objective because it had not been trained or developed subjectively? [11]
Mark Twain's mind was always busy with plans and inventions, many of them of serious intent, some semi-serious, others of a purely whimsical character. [5]
Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy, arising from causes purely imaginary; she required consolation, and found it in Petrarch. [5]
Even one or two purely Protestant books of missionary enterprise, found in a box in her dead mother's room, had had all the charms of poetry and adventure. [11]
Herr Casper had treated her kindly from a purely selfish motive. [10]
You might chance to knock me out, by no merit of your own, but by a purely accidental blow; and then my reputation would be gone and you would have a double one. [5]
The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
He wrote frequently to Hall, of course, but the letters for the most part are purely of a business nature and of little interest to the general reader. [5]
With both of these he had had long talks of late, on everything but purely personal matters. [11]
It is for their interest to send something; and their judgment of what is important is not only biased, but is formed by purely local standards. [4]
Note: Some of the phrases in the above are mining technicalities, purely, and may be a little obscure to the general reader. [5]
But to say the farm shall no longer belong to the owner, or his heirs forever, and this as well when the farm is not needed for military purposes as when it is, is purely political, without the savor of military law about it. [7]
The recognition of the fact that the newspaper is a private and purely business enterprise will help to define the mutual relations of the editor and the public. [4]
The language of the eyes runs deeper into the personal nature, but it is purely individual, and perishes in the expression. [6]
A serial publication, the contents of which are purely original and of such remarkable merit, is a novelty in our country, and I am delighted to find that it has already taken so prominent a position before the reading world. [6]
I told him that this was purely vegetable; after which he seemed more at his ease, and, in fact, delighted with everything he saw. [4]
We have seen that his first purely humorous publication of this nature was the one which made him known to the general public. [4]
Whatever purely literary talent existed was as yet in the nebular condition, a diffused luminous spot here and there, waiting to form centres of condensation. [6]
If one could take any satisfaction in this phase of her character, her worldiness was purely American. [4]
If there is such a thing as a purely accidental coincidence this must be considered an instance of it. [6]
But we cannot successfully eliminate and teach by itself that which is purely practical. [3]
I was purely selfish in wanting you to go. [4]
Still, he could see that there were things, purely social, in which the Londoners were at advantage; and he acknowledged this when he said, concerning Stephen Pride's fond boast, that he was "talking through his hat. [11]
Jack had his reasons for it, which may have been financial, and Carmen had her reasons, which were probably purely social. [4]
It was a purely Pagan impulse, Isabel, and we'd better own it. [8]
It was a purely malicious prosecution. [4]
Even in purely philanthropical enterprises the driving-wheel that keeps them in motion for any length of time is the salary paid the working members. [4]
During the early part of his purely literary career a large proportion of Warner's collected writings, which then appeared, were first published in the Atlantic Monthly. [4]
It was purely ornamental, for the donkey cared nothing for it. [5]
Can the party opinion of a party President on a law question, as this purely is, be at all compared or set in opposition to that of such a man, in such an attitude, as Chancellor Kent? [7]
If then, purely on your own account, you wish to resign, we will not further refuse you. [7]
He went through on that purely superficial 'cram', and got compliments, too, while others, who knew a thousand times more than he, got plucked. [5]
In the midst of so much that is purely selfish, it is delightful to meet such disinterested care for others. [6]
That is purely of local interest, which nobody should be allowed to say a word about. [7]
The Scotch scene, of course, is purely imaginary. [9]
I have another objection, a purely selfish one: trading upon my name, whether the enterprise scored a success or a failure would damage me. [5]
As the questions must be supposed to be asked with a purely scientific and philanthropic purpose, it can make little difference when and where they are answered. [6]
I think the mind is purely a machine, a thoroughly independent machine, an automatic machine. [5]
In a purely military point of view, this reduced the duty of the administration in the case to the mere matter of getting the garrison safely out of the fort. [7]
To this purely material and utilitarian idea of life, the higher colleges and universities everywhere are urged to conform themselves. [4]
He called it masterly; he said that in its presentations it was irrefutable; as a precis of evidence purely circumstantial it was-- useful and interesting. [11]
The Young Girl made a slight movement; it was a purely accidental coincidence, no doubt, but I saw That Boy put his hand in his pocket and pull out his popgun, and begin loading it. [6]
The Science and laws of a purely mental healing and their method of application through spiritual power alone, else a mental argument against disease, are our own discovery at this date. [5]
When he praises, it is with evident pleasure; and when he finds fault, it is with evident reluctance and restraint, excepting where motives purely patriotic urge him to state roundly what it is for the benefit of his country should be known. [5]
I assure you it is purely a matter of temperament. [5]
Some mechanical employment is the greatest possible relief, after the purely intellectual faculties begin to tire. [6]
Yet Emerson's personality is seen in its many intellectual and serious poems, and in the small number of its purely religious selections. [6]
By some mistake, intentional on the part of somebody, as it may have been, or purely accidental, we went to the Herr House instead. [6]
There is, however, in the House of Commons today a young and active politician once in the Egyptian service, and who bears a most striking resemblance to the purely imaginary portrait which Mr. Talbot Kelly, the artist, drew of the Dicky Donovan of the book. [11]
It is purely in his discretion whether he will admit a reply to any thing that has appeared in his columns. [4]
She thought that if these last were purely imaginary, she might draw from the real without detection, but in this she was mistaken; her studies were too closely accurate. [14]
I greatly apprehend, however, that the weakest character in the book is the one I aimed at making the most beautiful; and, if this be the case, the fault lies in its wanting the germ of the real--in its being purely imaginary. [14]
And how sweet, how purely womanly she was! [10]
Among the commanders holding these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called abolitionism, or with Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinions. [7]
The secret of his success was purely Oriental. [11]
The power of healing which was in Him was a purely exceptional power. [5]
So far we have studied the working of force and its seeming anomalies in purely chemical phenomena. [3]
On returning to France, to the bosom of the great, strong, magnificent, peaceful, and glorious fatherland, I should have proclaimed her frontiers immutable; all future wars purely defensive, all aggrandizement antinational. [2]
The pleasure of exercise is due first to a purely physical impression, and secondly to a sense of power in action. [6]
The polity, the empire, that we shall found on the overthrow of Theodosius and of Rome shall be Hellenic, purely Hellenic. [10]
What I had done I had done purely through charity, and only to ease the poor youth's fall--I never had dreamed of any such preposterous result as the thing that had happened. [5]
A reverend gentleman demurred to this statement,--as if, because combustion is asserted to be the sine qua non of thought, therefore thought is alleged to be a purely chemical process. [6]
A purely psychological curiosity hypnotized him to see how far the banker would go in his apparent generosity. [9]
You do by correspondence or purely business talks about his books--but personally, I mean? [5]
A recent story called "The Refugees" set out with a certain promise of veracity, although the reader understood of course that it was to be a purely romantic invention. [4]
She might have been Spanish, or Italian, or Roumanian, or Slav, though nothing of her Indian blood showed in purely Indian characteristics, and something sparkled in her, gave a radiance to her face and figure which the storm and struggle in her did not smother. [11]
Some of these are purely instinctive, for others I can assign a reason. [6]
Only a few are purely imaginary. [11]
Nor did she appear unworthy of such homage, for when the barge ran into the little haven and Haschim could distinguish her features he was startled by her noble and purely Greek beauty. [10]
It is purely an economic and educational problem, and must rest upon the same principles that govern in any successful industry, or in education, and that we recognize in the conduct of life. [4]
Only Mont Blanc, afar off, remained purely white, in a kind of regal inaccessibility. [4]
When I speak about her philanthropic zeal, she says her interest is purely scientific. [4]
It might, by a purely mechanical operation, keep a person awake, but no one could go to sleep chewing gum. [4]
Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely a matter of environment and point of view. [5]
One naturally feels a certain delicacy it handling from a purely artistic point of view persons who have been so near to him. [6]
The period from 1830 to 1860 was that of our greatest purely literary achievement, and, indeed, most of the greater names of to-day were familiar before 1850. [4]

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